Comments on: Gadget Lust – ASUS Eee PC 701

By: Niall O Broin

Niall O Broin — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:10:37 +0000

Yes – I used mine with an O2 modem, and it worked fine. Returned the modem and now use it with a Nokia E51 via BT or direct cable connection and both work fine. With the cable, it’s plug and play. Bluetooth is a little more effort.

By: John

John — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 08:07:40 +0000

A friend got one of these last week. Does it work with a 3G USB modem?

If so I’m tempted to get one.

By: Liam

Liam — Fri, 08 Feb 2008 12:01:42 +0000

Arrived yesterday, ordered 7th December 2007.

Well worth the wait. Its great. Out of the box, and surfing in less than 1 minute. Spent about 5 mins looking at the ‘Easy mode’ interface, then slapped in a sd card with a compressed movie on it. Ran perfectly. Then enabled the advanced mode and I’ve got a full blown linux desktop. Have used it for skype, ssh, and remote desktop (both ways). Fixed ethernet and WIFI both work perfectly.

Firefox is great on it, no problems with most sites (some lateral scrolling for those over 800 px wide). Have successfully used it on a busy CMS backend (TYPO3).

The Xandros distro of Linux is great and very friendly for those more used to MS Windows.

Complaints:
Right shift key is out of position (to the right of the up cursor key and same size as cursor key). This is the major annoyance so far.

Maybe a bigger internal HD (it has 4Gb and most gets used by system and apps), but its not a big issue with external SD or USB drives able to supply plenty of storage.

No problems typing otherwise and I don’t have small fingers

Next steps.. Find a suitable bag/case to house it and its power plug, headphones, usb powered external HD, usb mouse. Plenty of candidates including hand gun cases e.g. http://www.amazon.com/Small-Aluminum-Pistol-Case-Silver/dp/B000E1H6F2/ref=pd_sbs_sg?ie=UTF8&qid=1202471300&sr=1-20

for only $12.75

There is also a touchscreen mod that is tempting.

Will be interesting to see how future variants do against competitors like the Cloudbook.

By: Joe Drumgoole

Joe Drumgoole — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 17:51:52 +0000

Stuff magazine says the screen is much smaller than it looks in reality.

By: Cian

Cian — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 16:57:03 +0000

That’d be a nice companion to my err… desktop replacement, for just word processing etc.

Cheep as chips too. Might just pick some up sometime I have a bit of cash to spend.

By: DonegalGuy

DonegalGuy — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:23:24 +0000

It can have 1Gb of RAM. As far as i have seen, screwing off a little section of the back its easy to add! And a nice 250gb USB External will go nicley with it!

Its small, but nice small! Handy small. And they amount of thing a person could get done with this, who is busy and on the go, would be incredible.

As far as i know, there is/were 2 rivals to this, The palm Foleo has been taken of the market, which is a shame coz it looked so great! And there is another, which is called the VIA NanoBook.

And you can put XP on it! not that youd want to but, option there!

By: liam noonan

liam noonan — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 12:23:42 +0000

A colleague of mine ordered one the other day (it wasn’t Bernie). Will get to see it in action next week,

By: Donncha’s Wednesday Links at Holy Shmoly!

Donncha’s Wednesday Links at Holy Shmoly! — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 10:27:23 +0000

[...] is lusting after the Eee PC. Toni already bought one and he has the same complaints I had reservatioons about, [...]

By: Peter Knight

Peter Knight — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 22:23:07 +0000

Make sure you order from NewEgg :O)
http://www.engadget.com/2007/11/05/newegg-mistakenly-ships-out-five-eee-pcs-for-the-price-of-one/

By: Dan

Dan — Tue, 06 Nov 2007 19:50:13 +0000

512Mb of ram ! Enough said.